[Cryptography] [cryptography] Browser JS (client side) crypto FUD

[Kristian Gjøsteen]

1. aug. 2014 kl. 19:16 skrev Tony Arcieri <bascule at gmail.com>:

> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Kristian Gjøsteen <kristian.gjosteen at math.ntnu.no> wrote:
> In a perfect world, browsers would expose a standard, useful API of cryptographic and mathematical primitives, which would make it much easier to deploy JavaScript cryptography. But that’s unlikely to happen.
> 
> It's already happening in the form of the WebCrypto API 

No. The WebCrypto API is sufficient for some applications, but not for others (such as the voting application I mentioned.) Maybe you can twiddle with the DH interface to get exponentiation, but that’s hardly sufficient to do non-trivial cryptography.

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Kristian Gjøsteen